Grand jury charges postal worker with mail crimes

A U.S. Postal Service worker in Lubbock has been ordered to appear in federal court July 9 on charges of mail theft by a postal employee and obstruction of mail by a postal employee.

Grant Demose Fisher has not been arrested, but was ordered to appear in federal Magistrate Court after a grand jury June 20 indicted him on three counts of mail theft and two counts of obstruction of mail.

According to the indictment, Fisher took four GameFly computer game mailers in one incident; took a package that contained medication addressed to a postal customer in Slaton; and took a package containing jewelry addressed to another customer in Slaton.

The obstruction of mail counts included unlawfully opening a Netflix mailer with the movie “Moneyball” addressed to a customer in Lubbock, and opening a package containing earrings that was addressed to a jewelry repair and wholesale business in Melissa.